Course Information

Will your disaster plan work in a real disaster situation? It's better to find answers now than after a disaster has occurred! Attend this scenario-based and collaboration workshop to help heritage institutions – libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, etc. – improve disaster preparedness and response for collections.

This workshop will:

Help you assess your vulnerabilities

Test your plan using a scenario table top exercise

Explore how collaborations can help you respond to a disaster

Build a shared vision for regional disaster preparedness

Who should attend:

When possible, send two to three participants from your institution to work together on disaster preparedness activities:

Staff member(s) responsible for emergency preparedness

Administrator and/or manager responsible for the building/collection

Key members of the emergency/disaster team responsible for decision-making

Requirements for attendance:

A written disaster plan (draft okay) that includes collections response/recovery

A letter of institutional commitment to explore collaboration to optimize preparedness

Update
on Fatal Airplane Crash in Kiowa County on May 18

Eads, Colo. –May 20, 2016 – On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 a
fatal airplane crash occurred in Kiowa County.The Kiowa County Sheriff’s Office has been informed it could take up to
a year to complete the full investigation.All media requests for further information will be handled by the NTSB
Public Affairs Office at 202-314-6100.

On
May 18 the Bent/Kiowa County Dispatch received a call just after 9:30 a.m. reporting
that an aircraft had disappeared from radar in the vicinity of the
Kansas/Colorado state line.Multiple
agencies responded to search for a downed aircraft including the Kiowa County
Fire Department, ambulance crews, the Colorado State Patrol, and Kiowa County
Sheriff’s Office (KCSO).Two F16
aircraft and a B1 Bomber were training in the area and also assisted in the
search. The F16 and B1 Bomber pilots quickly located the crash site and lead
rescue personal to the scene.

A
Cessna P210 was found west of County Road 71 approximately three miles north of
Highway 96, in a field northeast of Sheridan Lake.The pilot has been identified as John Lee
Stubblefield, age 64, of Meridian, Idaho.Stubblefield died in the crash.

The
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB) arrived on Thursday, May 19 to investigate the crash scene.They recovered the aircraft for their investigation
later that evening.